1960s Foreign Policy
This communist nation became the center of Cold War tensions in the early 1960s, and for the United States hit close to home!
What is Cuba?
President Lyndon Johnson became President in 1963, and was then elected on his own in 1964. His focus was to continue make progress in many of the areas that Kennedy had started including poverty, civil rights and the economy. His version of this was known as...
What is the Great Society?
In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched ___________, the first satellite into orbit, and began the Space Race with the United States.
What is Sputnik?
In March 1965, civil rights marchers were beaten and tear-gassed on the Edmond Pettus Bridge in Montgomery in what would become known as this.
What is "Bloody Sunday?"
In 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus and was arrested for breaking the segregation laws on public transportation.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This program was developed and federally funded by the Kennedy administration in response to the Soviets' launching of Sputnik, and promised to push America ahead in the "space race"
What is NASA?
2 part question! Identify the candidates running for President in the 1960 election.
John F. Kennedy (D) and Richard Nixon (R)
A 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, this event is probably the closest the two sides came to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
President Johnson signed this act into law calling it the 'most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction".
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This group of students tested school desegregation measures in the south when they enrolled in Central High School but were initially blocked by Arkansas National Guard.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
When Kennedy was elected in 1960, he inherited the beginnings of the Cold War in addition to other foreign policy concerns. In 1962, Kennedy challenged America to achieve this goal by the end of the decade as part of the Space Race
What is to be the first nation to get a man on the moon?
President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, by this man.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
This idea was that if one nation fell to communism, those surrounding nations would fall to communism was called the ______________ theory.
What is the "domino theory"?
Stokely Carmichael, a SNCC leader, coined this phrase, urging African Americans to fight for their rights 'by any means necessary."
What is "Black Power?"
He was a leader in the Nation of Islam and promoted black nationalism; his views on racial integration were at odds with many civil rights leaders as he called for a separate nation for black Americans.
Who is Malcolm X?
A total foreign policy embarrassment for Kennedy, this was the failed coup of Fidel Castro in Cuba that led to the more ominous Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
One of the most successful and popular Great Society programs was _________________, which provided health care for elderly Americans (65+ years of age)
What is Medicare?
Following the Communist Revolution in 1959, _____________________ came to power in Cuba and developed a close alliance with the Soviet Union.
Who is Fidel Castro?
During the Freedom Summer of 1963, civil rights workers flooded __________________ (state) to organize civil rights efforts against segregation laws. 3 civil rights workers were eventually killed during these efforts.
What is Mississippi?
These white and black student activists were attempting to call attention to segregation bus terminals and routes in the south in the early 1960s.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US and the Soviet Union signed this agreement to stop testing atomic weapons.
What is the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
Kennedy's domestic agenda for America was called this and is noted by his proclamation in his inaugural for Americans to "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
What is the New Frontier?
Identify at least 2 reasons why the election of 1960 was like no other- historic!
What is: youngest President ever elected, closest election results in US History, first Catholic President elected, first televised debates during the campaign.
Following passage of ____________________, hundreds of African Americans were elected to government positions at the local, state, and federal level.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Calling for civil disobedience and nonviolence as the weapons to combat racism and segregation, he became a leading voice in the civil rights movement until he was assassinated in 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?